skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How did nothing change? What message does this send?

nothing changed because camping out in a park for a few months without making any actionable, specific demands as a group is not a good tactic for effecting change. BLM was a bit more specific with their demands and have already received a few (if token) concessions.
That’s called being civil. Would you prefer they instead break the law to have their voices heard? Do you want wall street suits to fear for their life?
Nobody would be complaining if they lost a ton of money on a stupid trade. In fact they would be posting loss porn on the front page of the subreddit and laughing about it. In fact, some WSBers did short GME and lost a bunch of money.

But when the hedge funders get caught then for some reason it's bad and Reddit or Robinhood or the government needs to step in and fix the situation. Instead, we should all be laughing over Melvin Capital's loss porn.
I wrote a Firefox extension for exactly this almost 20 years ago back in their XUL iteration of extensions. Everything old is new again I guess. Brings back memories.
It's never more about money than when "It's not about the money anymore".

I think that with a stock whose worth at this point is the result of pure dutch-tulip-like speculation, the question is where is the tipping point where money just becomes too good to ignore and when people start collectively selling, making the stock inevitably plummet.
To your transfer point, Robinhood inappropriately rejected my ACATS transfer that I initiated yesterday, which I started anticipating the collapse of their technical infrastructure. I was, of course, borne out correct and now I’m forced to liquidate with an app that barely works. So they’re even locking the transfer door. I’m talking to a lawyer this morning about options. help@ is silent.

Canceling orders doesn’t work, market orders on non-memes are up to 20min to execute, my profile page has been a fastfail 500 for four days, but because I held some of these famous securities their “we want you be informed during these uncertain times” (please) notifications work just fine.

If you still use Robinhood it’s time to go. Get out while it’s partially working. As an SRE I’m not sure that’s going to last, and that’s even before dissecting the business model.
I'm saying they should be sued. So, yes, I am saying that. If you buy securities you can't sell, you're pinned and that's not right, is it. I'm not sure if Robinhood traders signed up to that. Free doesn't matter.
Yes. They should be forced to provide the service they promised. It’s not my fault their business model is failing for a particular ticker on a particular day.

If they can’t, then some advance notice is needed. Making this decision instantly without giving customers time to move their holdings elsewhere is not okay.

That being said, I’m surprised people are still using them for day trading. They don’t have a great track record.
By crashing, or giving the appearance of crashing, Coinbase, Kraken etc maintain plausible deniability. RH is going whole hog "look at us, we are denying you the ability to buy this security so that hedge funds can drive the price down, and all you can do is sell your existing position - can't even short it if you like"
Are we talking about cutting your own nose off to spite someone else's face?
Imagine being the CEO of a company whose capital structure has IC related debt that amortizes over 10 years, having to report next quarter to shareholders, and your tenure is measured in quarters not years, if you cannot deliver on the topline.

How can you responds to requests to buy into a charging network when your response to market forces is existentially reptilian?

That is how IC inertia has allowed an innovator like Tesla to come into being.
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The reason stuff like that ends up in contracts is because attorneys know that most people are afraid of legal conflict, and they can get people to cave in to demands just to avoid a lawsuit. It is typical to put clauses into standard contracts that would never hold up in court, but that people will follow anyway out of fear.

I believe that everyone in the corporate world, or even wider, should go through a "Law 101" course just to learn the basics of contract law and how our legal system works, so people can recognize such behaviors.
Like all of AWS, the pricing seems opaque and without hard limits:

https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/pricing/

"Our transaction and storage quotas are designed to handle the most common developer workflows without incurring overages. For most workflows where CodeCommit users are manually using Git operations, these quotas are rarely breached."

"$0.001 per Git request"

I need an option that is limited to $5 a month, with DDoS being their problem.
Yeah, what a weird take. As if La Bastille was attacked by French aristocracy. This argument only holds if you hold 2 very loose claims. 1) To confuse the leaders with the whole movement. 2) To compare the rag-tag group of young lawyers, acerbic journalists, disgruntled politicians with the whole ancien regime.

Mike Duncan is an entertainer, not a professional historian.
There's always the chance someone social-engineered their way past the registrar's access control, or that they got some kind of access to the registrar's systems. Or the domain owner simply didn't read an email properly and clicked the wrong link.

There's too little information to draw conclusions at this point.
Yep, that buyer is https://twitter.com/theroaringkitty

Here [0] he talks the first time about the GME stock; the video was uploaded on the 28th of July, 2020 and the stock was at $4.03 back then.

Here [1] you can find his latest GME update; he's sitting on $50 Mio. right now, although it's quite volatile.

Here [2] you can see a post from his Reddit account on November 2019 showing his GME calls.

It's just crazy and fascinating at the same time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/eick65/gme_...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/e3kpbc/gme_...
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If you are coming with such a narrative it would behoove you to come with proof.
There is a micro-USB connector on the back which you could just permanently hook up to a power supply. When the battery life is not part of the equation anymore, making push available is not a problem.
This sums up what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcG3XAMIRlI
> Inclement weather would obstruct the vision of the A-10 pilots too.

That's not generally true.

For example, in WW2 the B-29 started at 20,000', and because Japan often has clouds starting at 5,000', so they had to fly under the clouds to see targets.

The US Air Force is not going to allow their pilots to do that today, so that's a good situation for the Army to operate A-10s.
On the one hand this is outrageous. On the other, if you don't pay for the product (Robinhood) then you are the product. How many times do we have to be reminded of this.
I was initially confused over the name conflict with the GUI Linux distro installer Anacoda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(installer)

In the context of this post, Anaconda is a Python and R distribution using the conda package manager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_distribution)
I appreciate the feedback. Could you tell me exactly which comments you found to be alienating? Perhaps that would help me refine arguments in the future. Thanks.
Watching events in USA in last month makes me really worried about relying on computer related stuff from US.

Trump's Social Medias,

Parler with AWS and the rest,

Reddit Warning to WSB so they had to close for a few hour(s),

Discord Ban to WSB,

RobinHood Scam

scam follows scam basically, no wonder people are angry when "just a few" control everything HARD.

This land is no full of freedom in any sense
The journalist is just wrong. Security professionals don't warn against it because it doesn't encrypt by default, they warn against it because Telegram wrote their own encryption protocol and they haven't allowed an outside audit. Basically "trust us we know what we're doing.

If something has changed feel free to correct me, but as far as I know MTProto is still all in-house closed source code and hasn't ever been audited.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
It's not just robinhood, platforms that charge commission such as IBRK [1] have halted the trade of options (which is different from not allowing buying) but it definitely suggests some behind the scenes coordination for all these online brokers to all decide this today.

[1] https://www.axios.com/robinhood-gamestop-restrictions-370adf...
If you believe this, start a competing service. There is no moral or practical rule that forces prices down to cost without external reason. If Fastmail is making big bucks, and customers are happy with the price, that's good for everyone.
Does not seem far fetched. Killing the business means maximum profit for the shorters.

Having a short interest of about 140% is also a good indicator that they would have loved to see GME bankrupt.

In the end a short means a future buy and 140% of shares bought in the future means the price will go up eventually..
Yes, this is the bed they made for themselves.
The only way things will change, I'm convinced, is for everybody to vote out the incumbent every time. Occupy Wall Street didn't work, riots and looting wealthy areas didn't work, raiding the capitol building didn't work. The corruption is dug in.

Voting out the incumbent breaks all these decades long (multi-generational?) relationships with the elites. They will probably reform the relationships to a degree the first time, but if congressional membership dramatically changes every 2 years, those relationships will weaken over time.

To whomever disagrees, please help me understand your reasoning.
The decision to shoehorn rust into a jupyter notebook is baffling, especially for something like data science. I like rust and all but come on. Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean you should.
So you're saying they're even dumber than they appear at first glance? Sorry, but pissing money away (or actually likely giving it to some Wall Street institution) to send some ill-defined "message" really can't be called anything but dumb.
Robinhood is not entirely free. Just sayin..
Opera has, since a while, the concept of workspace. A vertical icon bar is created at the edge of the screen, which basically acts as if there were multiple windows where to group tabs by topic. For instance, personal, work, media, research, topic x, y, z. The only improvement I see would be to optionally isolate the workspace from one another (so as to have different sessions on the same websites).
Yes, but that’s not a class action.
Exactly.

Just take a look at the shareholders and count how many shares those institutional have:
https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...

It's Wall Street vs Wall Street - redditors were just the catalyst, and will be left holding the bag.
>>> But what would someone get out of paying ppl to dislike whitehouse videos ?

>> Propaganda.

> But how do you know this is happening for this video though?

It's still the answer to the question you asked, whether it's actually happening or not.
That trunk latch is there because of legislation introduced at the request of a couple who were kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Before then, you couldn't open a trunk from the inside.

Nothing similar has happened with the hood or door handles...yet.
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Is that MacBook Air Non-Retina ?

I mean [1] Top is what I am referring to, where the Sign up button is above the fold. By Default it is shown like the bottom.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Bx6aDRv
>the market has rightfully taught them a lesson

Has it? What leads you to believe that THIS is the time investment firms will stop being reckless?
To see how this would turn out, just watch "person of interest". The question is whether this "god" will be the machine or samaritan. My fear is that it would be more like samaritan.
Matthew 7:7 Ask, You Shall Receive; Seek
And that's pretty normal for highly-volatile stocks, isn't it?
Matthew 7:7-11 - Ask, and you shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
Why doesn't Facebook whitelist place names, people names, proper nouns?

They have identified (nearly) everyone, living or dead. Going so far as creating shadow profiles for anyone without an account.

There are multiple geographical databases.

Why is this still a problem?
I've been trying out the side tabs for a week now and cannot get used to it. So many sites I use have left hand menus, e.g. JIRA, AWS, that is seems like cognitive overload to see both menus butted up against each other.

With top tabs there's at least the URL bar to provide some spatial separation between the two.
I'm not talking about good vs. bad, but winner vs. loser. This is Wall St vs Wall St with retail investors taking some off the top on one side. This is not retail investors vs Wall St.
Correct. Use a registrar with 2FA using authenticator or hardware key. No SMS 2FA. Rolling 5 year renewals will work for not letting the domain expire, but not for this scenario.
It seems more like big fish stuck in a losing set of trades are pulling whatever strings they can to save themselves.
I would wait a few months and read the write-ups by people who have had time to ferret out the details and look at various angles.

There are a lot of "hot takes" and people thinking all this fits some "narrative". But I think there is just a lot going on and I'd be cautious about assigning too much meaning to any of it without a lot more information, which we won't have right away.
To be fair, simple one-liner changes can be just as impactful as an entire package rewrite. I've reviewed a few one-liners that seemed innocent at the time, but had massive impact downstream.

As the project and the userbase grows, small conditional changes can be the most difficult to test because they require a very specific setup to test and verify.

Often times the only person that can reproduce the issue is the person submitting the PR.
Their paychecks can buy some very nice mattresses.

RH has been a scam since day one, the very principle of it is virtue signaling to the common man to sell his data to front run his trades.

I'm sure none of these people will lose a wink of sleep.
"terrifying".

That seems way over wrought.
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They still allow selling, just not buying.
That firefighter needed training. Trying to bash the window is not going to work. Wedging the axe between the window and door frame and using the axe as a lever with just a little force, the window would have easily shattered.
Hi everyone. I have been an iOS developer for a decade now. I realized long ago that most iOS apps are made of the same parts, and most iOS development work is consists of building the same things again and again.

That became even more evident since SwiftUI came out, where I find myself typing the same code again and again. Code snippets somehow alleviate the problem but have never been entirely satisfactory.

I was frustrated enough to make a macOS app to take away all that repetitive work (which I made in SwiftUI). The app allows you to structure a full app with a few clicks and then generate code you can export and run in Xcode.

I released the MVP some time ago, which allowed only to structure an app's navigation flow. Still, that was already a huge time saver for me. I am now adding more and more features to the app, to include the most common code iOS developers write.

The app is not very flexible yet, so there are limits to what you can do, but I am slowly working towards a more powerful editor. My objective is to, at least, get to a tool you can use to build a wireframe quickly, which you can then transform directly into an app that needs only minor tweaks (at least, UI wise).
Oh yeah cuz Antifa and BLM are just ideas. Come on man!
> By that logic every company in the valley could be heavily influenced to shutdown products for different people if it as any connection to a VC (which is pretty much every company).

Well, yes...?
This is identical to my experience of casino gambling.

If you have a system that is beating the house (or appears to be), the house will immediately shut you down.

You can't win. Not only because the bets are stacked against you (here in favour of the wealthy), but also because the system only exists in the first place to benefit the powerful.
How do we know what 'the public' is cheering? Has there been any reputable sources of this?

On one hand, the rise of meme stocks is shining light that one of the central conceits of capitalism is wrong (i.e. that the stock market isn't a good arbiter of the value of companies).

But as a member of the public, I'm concerned about what happens when the meme stocks come crashing back to earth. When that happens institutional investors will overreact, doom and gloom will reign, and CEOs of public companies will use that to lay off people and cut worker benefits.

The common person always loses when bubbles burst.
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It's not a pump and dump if there's a legitimate reason to think the stock will be worth more for reasons other than the pumping itself which there is due to the short squeeze.
Yes the idea is to use their insistence of arbitration against them by forcing them to pay for thousands of arbitration cases.
Forcing big leveraged players to sell is fantastic for everyone else. There will be a lot of cheap stocks to pick up for everyone else.
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Not sure if I missed something but did the government intervene here? I thought it was all private entities that stopped the trading?
The ironic part here is that the resolution pretty much suggests in points 1 & 2 that their comms will continue to be encrypted by mandate.

Like everything else, everything is subtext so you could argue that it doesn't mean this (or anything).
Well, it would be very unethical and highly illegal for me to resort to name-calling (but we can probably chat about it in private) but in short the team was a bunch of pretty hardcore guys who are very good at what they are doing but they were a part of a smaller company that got swallowed by the bigger company that hired me.

My general impression after I was sacked was that the team (and the smaller company) were resisting to get their culture changed with all their might (example: sitting in a voice chat room for the entire day, seriously, we work remotely and somewhat asynchronously nowadays, so why?).

But I didn't give it much thought because in the end it didn't matter: they made up their minds without discussing with me, and even if I re-applied it would not get me anywhere.

What really got to me however was that I was fired shortly after I finally took the company's mission and challenges to heart and started working VERY hard. Just 2-3 mere weeks before I got fired. To be let go almost exactly after you muscled through a mountain of obstacles and started loving the job and the people... that definitely did hit a vulnerable spot inside of me, I admit.

> Also, I'm pretty sure I've been in that gig and it bites. I suspect you dodged a bullet even if you got grazed.

Long-term I am sure I'll think the same but in the meantime my income took a hit. Sigh.
I'm not sure what anything can offer me that I'm missing...

Very large groups, if that’s your thing.
I don't known if the kind of publicity they're getting right now is good for them. They could end up losing way more.
This is so true. It's all connected. It's probable that Reddit, Discord, RobinHood have all received calls to disrupt retail traders from political players or financial backers. There's no evidence of this, the truth is we'll never know, but how its most obvious reason. If only RobinHood would live up to its namesake. It is alarming that "soft" circuit breakers are being used to target retail traders on exchanges.

<rant>

I rarely emote but this stinks to high heaven, corporates and politicians doing anything to keep necks under boots.As upsetting as it is to see folk fighting back capped at their knees, the broader issue is that of censorship, of the soft or hard variety, and coordination across firms to limit movements.

</rant>
Good. I'm tired of fake Economics where the value of a company or the product is not made from the real value of it, while some yuppies get rich in the proccess. The more they cry, the better.
Hope is collapses so "middle" and low class workers can get fair prices of what they earn by doing actual hard work.

Because this will create a good crash, dont fool about it. It will harm everyone, but at least this Century will be less focused on speculation and more on actual earnings.
Look at CFCs and the hole in the ozone. We came together as a world to ban them, and the hole in the ozone is largely healing. It's a great story.

But with one wrinkle: We had a good alternative to CFCs that cost about the same.

With oil and gas, we kinda don't have a good alternative yet. Sure, sure, solar is very cheap nowadays. But from a carbon footprint viewpoint? Solar is still pretty high when you remember you have to melt down all that silicon before you go soak up the sun.

Nuclear? Pebble Bed? Thorium? Public's got a very bad smell about that stuff. Besides, you just can't let all the autocrats out there get their hands on it otherwise they start making up things about having a-bombs and then things get invasion-y. Not cheap, those invasions.

Hydro? Wind? Great if you live in Vancouver or Nepal, but in Arkansas or Uttar Pradesh?

Unlike with CFCs, we just don't have a single power source that meet the requirements wherever you go. It's got to be a mosaic of power, and that's hard (read expensive) to manage and make.
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Wouldn’t forced arbitration in the TOS prevent that?
Yeah, there isn't necessarily a ton of overlap. I'm pretty liberal but I follow this stuff, not so much WSB (and no skin in the game for this GME craziness) but crypto, and put money I'm willing to lose into these things periodically. I've lost some money, sure, but I'm significantly up overall.
Well, they certainly got what they paid for.
In my defence..

In your defense, anyone old enough to remember carbs how work, even if only slightly, is forgiven the occasional lapse of memory. ;-)
How many browsers have you tried? Firefox regularly runs for a long time on my machine, and I have no issues with its memory usage.
One of the more interesting aspects of this story, IMO, is how many people used Robinhood to grab small amounts of GameStop stock.

Robinhood is suspected of having a business model of spying on their clients and selling that data to hedge funds (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-is-making...). Essentially, this puts their own clientele at an average disadvantage in all trades; the funds buying their data can set up algorithms to front-run any RH trades and skim a little more value than the people using RH could expect to get.

In this situation, it seems it didn't matter. Even if RH sold to the shorting traders "Hey, our clientele is buying the hell out of this near-junk stock," all the signal told them was how fast the train was coming at them, not which way to go to get off the tracks.
> Are you saying that Robinhood should be forced to continue providing a free service at a loss?

This seems like an honest framing of the situation!